Improvement in the manufacture of shoes



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Manufacture of Shoes.

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N0. 142,691, Patented Septeinber-9,l'873n AM. PHOTB -LITHOGRAFIIIO ,60.M X (neon/v55 PRWES) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. GREEN, OF PONTIAC, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,691, datedSeptember 9, 1873 application filed. September 2, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. GREEN, of Pontiac, in the county ofOakland and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in the Manufacture of Shoes; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which makes part ofthis specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation ofa shoe embracing my improvements. Fig. 2

represents the form in which the shoe is cut from the leather beforebeing crimped.

My invention relates to the manufacture of that class of shoes which arelaced in front; and. it consists in so cutting the leather that theentire upper is formed of a single piece, crimped at the back and frontat one and the same operation, and joined on the side at or about thecenter of the quarter or back of the shoe, whereby a great saving ofleather and labor in fitting the upper is effected, as will be morefully set forth.

In the drawing, A represents the front of the shoe, which is ordinarilyattached to the quarter. In this case it forms part of the continuousupper, which latter extends on the one side, as shown at B, from saidfront portion, to and around the heel of the shoe, to a point, a, and onthe other side, as shown at C, it extends from said front portion tosaid point a, where the contiguous ends of the quarter are joined by avertical seam at or about the middle of one side of the back of theshoe, as clearly shown in the drawing.

It has been practically demonstrated that a great saving is effected incutting the upper of a shoe of this class in the manner described.

Ordinarily, the leather is cut to produce the necessary curvatures inthe back and front portions of a shoe, thereby leaving in the next outsmall pieces, which are useless and are lost.

By my method the skin is so used as that the required curvatures areprovided by the out, and by stretching the leather by crimping, asdescribed; and by so doing we are enabled to produce the shoe-upper froma smaller surface of leather than can be done by the ordinary method.

When the upper is thus produced, the front thereof is slit so as to belaced, as described and shown.

Having described my invention, I claim- As a new article of manufacture,a shoe having its upper made from a single piece of leather, cut in themanner shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and crimped at front and rear,so that only one seam is required, and that at about the middle of theside of one quarter of the shoe, as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

. CHARLES W. GREEN.

Witnesses:

J. W. ROBBINS, CLARK BEARDSLY.

